Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
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Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.
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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
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Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.
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Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
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The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
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In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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Mortification from a self strength, carried on by ways of self invention, unto the end of a self righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.
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The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women of all classes detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.
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A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.
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Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
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In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at secondhand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at secondhand from other nonexaminers, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.
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Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.
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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
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Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.
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